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Re:Florida schools replacing teachers with computers by akharris on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @01:33PM (#2116804)
I think that's what dangoldin was saying. Poorer communities will be jammed with cheap software and computers rather than great teachers.

The software teaching method definitely has merit, but it's not a solution to "we have overcrowded classes." It's not yet ready for that, and there doesn't seem to be anyone credible claiming that it is.

This is just the outgrowth of bad policy and not enough funding.

Re:Florida schools replacing teachers with computers by tomjen3 on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:58PM (#2117573)
That assumes they have great teachers now, which is not a given.

If they have bad teachers, even a semi stupid program will be better than that.